RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was fined Rs 6,000 by a Palamau district court in Jharkhand on Wednesday over a model code of conduct violation during the 2009 Assembly polls.

The court of judge Satish Kumar Munda imposed a fine of Rs 6,000 and a sentence of a month and a half in jail.

“We deposited the fine of Rs 6000 while the jail term was converted with the stay during remand in the same case while Lalu ji served sentence in the fodder scam in Ranchi,” said Lalu Prasad’s legal counsel and Ranchi High Court advocate Prabhat Kumar.

The model code of conduct violation case was filed when Lalu Prasad Yadav had arrived by helicopter to campaign for RJD candidate Girinath Singh from Garhwa. He was supposed to attend a meeting at Govind High School and a helipad was made at Kalyanpur in Garhwa block. But instead of landing in the helipad the helicopter landed at the school ground, leading to the lodging of the case.

“The matter has been disposed of and he is now free of charges,” said Lalu’s legal counsel in the Palamau court, Dhirendra Kumar Singh.